The violation occurs in the fact that no one has been able to identify any
physical radiation of any known energy source during brain activity that
can be detected beyond the skull. Further, psi signals (unlike anything
known to physics) do not seem to obey the inverse square law (they do not
degrade as a function of distance).
You can find more detailed analyses at <http://www.csicop.org/si/>.
At 8:39 PM -0400 9/15/00, Miguel Roig wrote:
>At 11:25 AM 9/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>"Extraordinary claims require extraodinary proof."
>>Given that ESP (by definition) contradicts a vast body of scientific
>>knowledge in both physics and biology, the onus is on the ESP investigators
>>to support their claims.
>
>Given that no one, including parapsychologists, truly understands the
>mechanisms of these ostensible phenomena and that if they exist at all
>they are
>very weak to begin with, and given that the available laboratory research is
>limited in scope, and flawed according to critics, how is it possible to
>determine scientifically that physical laws are being violated? Here I am
>referring to psi, or ESP, as an anomalous process, not to it's individual
>components (e.g., telepathy, precognition) which parapsychologists no longer
>seek to study individually.
>
>>Given the small probability that all of modern physics is false, even small
>>likelihoods of error or fraud in ESP research must be given serious
>>consideration.
>
>Sorry, but I fail to see how anyone can claim that the laboratory evidence for
>psi makes all or part of modern physics wrong. In addition, I think that as
>scientists we have a moral obligation to first exhaust all avenues of
>potential
>error before we go on accusing, without proper evidence, other scientists who
>work in good faith, that fraud has taken place.
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